Sarracenia seedlings and seed cold stratification

Which method do you use ?

  • WITH cold stratification

    Votes: 11 91.7%

  • WITHOUT cold stratification

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Total voters
    12
I finally got around to repotting these seedlings. There were a heck of a lot more babies than I thought. I ended-up with 9 pots of 6 seedlings. Hope I didn't traumatize them too much. Should I give them a week or 2 to settle in before I start with a light fertilizer?
 
I need to pay attention to them too, they're lack left lol
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Raymond Chong said:
I finally got around to repotting these seedlings. There were a heck of a lot more babies than I thought. I ended-up with 9 pots of 6 seedlings. Hope I didn't traumatize them too much. Should I give them a week or 2 to settle in before I start with a light fertilizer?
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So it has almost been a month since I separated the seedlings into less crowded pots and they have done nothing. Sort of went into suspended mode. Anything I can do to get them to start growing again. I did start using Maxsea lightly.

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Raymond, I should have mentioned that I’ve found that sarr seedlings like to be potted up in a substrate that isn’t too compacted. If you pressed down on the medium before transplanting, the roots may be trying to grow like Dusted suggested. Looser medium makes it easier for roots to develop, which leads to better growth. At least that’s what I’ve found.
 
Kevin1861 said:
Raymond, I should have mentioned that I’ve found that sarr seedlings like to be potted up in a substrate that isn’t too compacted. If you pressed down on the medium before transplanting, the roots may be trying to grow like Dusted suggested. Looser medium makes it easier for roots to develop, which leads to better growth. At least that’s what I’ve found.
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Hey Kevin. Thankfully, I didn't pack the soil in. I lightly placed the soil in the pot and then used a chopstick to make a hole and then tucked the soil around the roots. I then watered to ensure the soil settled down. Fingers crossed that they will soon...Pow! : )
 
Well, I forgot 2 bags of seeds in my fridge for 10 months! I thought they were toasted, as they were full of mold and I really did not think they were going to sprout, so much so that I planted each pack of seeds in one single pot, all crowded together. I was really sad because those seeds cost me 130$ CAD, ordered from Europe.

But I was very surprised to see the result. I think EVERY SINGLE SEED sprouted! wow!

So don't be afraid to keep them in stratification for a bit more time. I think 4 weeks is probably not enough. I never had such a good germination rate. So with a single pot of seeds, I managed to make 4 large pots and one medium.

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They are tough little things! I had seed I had stratified the pots sprouted in the spring, grew and baked all summer, I got sick they fried, were dry for a couple months, then got wet over winter and remaining seed sprouted following spring.

Glad they sprouted after such an expense
 
wow, yes they are tough. It just goes we should not give up on them.
I know some people put seeds in stratification for 4 weeks and not much sprouted, so they put them back in stratification another month or 2 and they finally sprouted. We just need to give them the proper time. And strangely, mold does not impair their quality it seems.
 
7 Month update…

Sarracenia lemon legacy
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Kept outdoors for the summer. Mr. Chipmunk dug up 2 of my seedlings, so this is the sole survivor.
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Sarracenia Byron’s 40” leucophylla
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I’ve been tray fertilizing (MaxSea) all of the seedlings, except the pot of lemon legacy I kept outdoors.
 
Maybe its the type of mold. I had the same experience with various mold on Sarracenia leucophylla seeds, but more often on seeds of the nightshade family,
f.e. Mandragora sp. It looks surprising when healthy seedlings grow out of a heap of seeds with mold.
It was never Botrytis mold.

I think the mold weakens the seed shell. Sarracenia has some hydrophobic abilities at the beginning. Maybe to let it float away. Until this layer is exhausted,water will not penetrate the shell.
I use now always living Sphagnum which is always associated with some fungus (at least in my setups). This keeps bad mold in check and softens seed shells sufficiently. That way I get molded seeds only if some are empty or dead. And that mold is restricted only to the single dead seed. The Sphagnum fungus fights it of quite satisfactorily from the healthy ones.
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